CCGL9065: Our Response to Climate Change: HK2100

Food Systems

Dr. Hongshan Guo and Class

Quick Recap From Two Weeks Ago

  • ‘Us against the AI’
  • Role-played as Pro/Anti-CC experts and different professions
  • Did a little bit of work on Notion
  • Skipped the Group Discussion

Logistic Questions

  • Tutorial Assignments?
    • Pick your time slots
    • CIC-Badged so starting off with reflective writing for T1/T2 (W2/W3)
  • Notion Pages and how that works?
    • Refer to Annoucement Email on publishing and submitting
    • Submit URL Only shared as published site
    • Due EOD every Wednesday

CCGL9065: Our Response to Climate Change

Address Common Concerns on Pro/Anti-CC

  • Take Climate Change Pro/Against as stances
  • Discuss complex issues each week from various angles
  • Familiarize with common/uncommon narratives
  • Role-play as people from different social pockets

A little Brain-Storming with Pro-CC Stances

  • Highlight how climate change impacts these areas and propose sustainable solutions or adaptations.
  • Tailor arguments to weekly themes to win more support through narratives/visuals/videos that shapes different people’s perceptions
  • Raise awareness from public on why being more/less climate-friendly is relevant to everybody.
  • Propose Solutions to theme-related challenges

Food Systems - What do we know about them?

Some of the hottest topics on food systems

  • Plant-based diets/meat alternatives
    • Shifting towards plant-based eating and rise of lab-grown meat
  • Food waste reduction
    • Strategies to minimize food waste throughout the supply chain from farm to table
  • Regenerative agriculture:
    • Farming practices that sequester carbon in soil, improve biodiversity and enhance ecosystem resilience.
  • Vertical farming and urban agriculture
  • Sustainable fishing: over-fishing?
  • Carbon labeling of food products

Some Interesting Representation of those ideas - For-CC on Meat

Some Interesting Representation of those ideas - Against-CC on Meat

Group Assignment Time!

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